In July, an international network project involving the Centre for Historical Research Laboratory for Environmental and Technological History was granted the support of two international research funds.Julia Lajus, Head of the Laboratory, told HSE News Service what environmental and technology history is all about, and what role HSE researchers play in the Tensions of Europe international research network.

Researchers with the HSE International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy have developed an approach towards analysing strategies for employing intangibles. In the study, which was published in the journal Management Decision, they discovered that only 36.5% of Russian companies are pursuing an intensive intellectual capital strategy.

The aim of the work is to create applications for execution of practice works on the stand NI ELVIS II by National Instruments using augmented reality. To form proposals and obtain information about existing objects and the conditions for their interaction with virtual objects. The scheme of the development object is described, its main blocks are indicated.

The information designed for the mobile operating system Android. A user holding a smartphone in their hand (or donning a special helmet) bring the device to the workstation. When the object camera is placed on the laboratory stand, the application starts the algorithm for comparing the captured image with the base markers, after which the analysis result appears on the screen. The user can be tested on the current laboratory work by testing their knowledge.

In the article, the following fundamental questions are comprehended: whether education remains a public good,
whose objective is the all-round development of the individual, in the sense that the ancestors of the modern education system understood it, or it has become one of the new areas of the economy related to the services sector. The answer to this question is of key importance for understanding the role of education in modern society, since in the former case the responsibility lies with the state, and in the latter case we are dealing with a market, where the laws of supply and demand rule.

The Russian higher education reform is ripe and overripe a long time. It is conducted primarily as optimization for purely economic criteria. This work contains a sketch of the actions that are able to adjust the conversion in connection with the orientation of the universities to the real labor market. This adjustment includes a number of significant steps towards the creation of a deep social partnership of government, business and academic communities.